Adobe is lazy, the iPad will never run Flash, and Google’s “do no evil” mantra is crap – that’s an alleged summary of Steve Jobs’ recent morale boosting speech to Apple employees.

Steve Jobs has rallied up troops attending a company meeting at Apple’s Town Hall campus in Cupertino late last week following the iPad introduction. Employees had a chance to ask the CEO about anything regarding Apple’s latest strides. Most of the questions focused on the iPad and Apple’s relationship with Google and Adobe. An employee who was allegedly there briefed Wired on the agenda. According to this individual who spoke on condition of anonymity, the January 5 Nexus One launch didn’t worry Steve Jobs who apparently said Apple sees “no signs of the competition catching up any time soon.” The CEO offered an interesting take on Adobe regarding their Flash technology and the lack of it on Apple’s upcoming couch computing tablet:

They are lazy. They have all this potential to do interesting things but they just refuse to do it. They don’t do anything with the approaches that Apple is taking, like Carbon. Apple does not support Flash because it is so buggy. Whenever a Mac crashes more often than not it’s because of Flash. No one will be using Flash. The world is moving to HTML5.

Apparently he was also quite reminiscent of how the old Adobe used to be, according to Daring Fireball.

The original iPad promo video had the device running Flash content on the sites like the New York Times, prompting the blogosphere to speculate if the multitouch tablet in fact supports Flash. However, updated footage posted on Apple’s site has dashed all hopes of Flash on the iPad. A new version has the iPad showing a familiar plugin error in place of the Flash content, just like during Jobs’ on-stage demo. Jobs was also referring to a sluggish pace of development regarding Adobe’s Cocoa-based Creative Suite that’s still stuck with decade-old Carbon code.

Cocoa is an objective-C based runtime environment that Apple recommends for modern Mac OS X apps that want to exploit new technologies that debuted in Snow Leopard, like multi-core processing and OpenCL GPU acceleration.

We did not enter the search business. They entered the phone business. Make no mistake they want to kill the iPhone. We won’t let them. This don’t be evil mantra: It’s bullshit.

Of course, it’s entirely possible that a source ballooned the speech out of proportion or spiced up Jobs’ words a bit. We may never know for sure, though, as Apple employees are seldom authorized to discuss internal meetings with the press. A week ago CNBC’s resident Mac reporter Jim Goldman cited a source claiming that Jobs apparently “hates Eric,” adding that Apple’s CEO “cannot and will not build a search engine” of his own.

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Apple and Google are slowly but surely becoming bitter rivals. The search firm has recently acquired the leading mobile analytics firm AdMob for $750 million, prompting Apple to snap up AdMob’s rival Quatro Wireless. Google followed-up by welcoming Apple’s entrance into the advertising business. Apple has also acquired a music startup Lala and is thought to have quietly acquired a Los Angeles-based mapping startup Placebase early July, presumably to create its own mapping service in order to reduce the iPhone’s dependency on Google Maps. For the record, Steve Jobs did note during the iPad introduction that the tablet’s mapping application runs on the Google Maps backend, including the built-in Street View feature.

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dmhango

The best thing for apple is to grab the Search Engine industry. I know Apple leads the way soon people will be flocking to iSearch hahahahahahaha.

Mark

I must preface this comment by saying I have been exclusively an Apple user for 20+ years, but lately I am feeling less loyal. Their totalitarian App control is not serving the consumer in the end, but only the pocketbook of Apple. Having no “choice” is not consumer friendly, and used not to be an Apple prime directive.

But, the recent comment by Jobs worry me even more since they sound like a child on the playground who suddenly realizes there are others who have some really “shinny” objects to show off and is now having a bit of a tantrum. Is it just a tantrum, or does he see things that threaten his leadership in the shinny objects people are starting to want? I am not sure yet, but experience tells me there is a bit of envy in what he does not have.

A Brit

Well actually choice is often not in consumer interest. In a market with large amounts of competition typically companies will reduce cost to get people to purchase their product, however they also make a cut in the quality of the product so they can reach that price.

So if you have 10 similar products but are all crap, what kind of choice is that? I’d rather have the choice of 2 which are of higher quality.

signine

I know it might be a bit late for this but it’s Steve Jobs, not Steve Jobes; unless you’re trying to make an obscure biblical reference you should probably correct that.

Matthew Humphries

@signine

Nice spot. Fixed.

Greg

For me, Google has more potential to serve my future IT needs. I can run Google apps on Ubuntu Linux, Windows, various mobile platforms, or the MacOS.

If Jobs wants to declare war on Google and Adobe, he’s going to lose in the long run and quite frankly, he has made it easier for me to decide that iPhone and iPad are NOT for me.

I’d rather save $300 and get a netbook with Ubuntu than pay twice as much for an iPad that can’t even run Flash.

Alex

To be fair, other mobile phones are also unable to play newest Flash 10, say ones with Nokia’s Symbian OS

http://www.uugame.tk Jomas

Games that are designed to run on the phone will be better and faster. The biggest advantage of flash on the phone will be videos and website compatibility rather then flash games.